Is there anything more important than auditors' professional qualification training?

In the last four to five years, we often wondered if consumer goods market audits had been conducted with maximum transparency of supply chain values and ethical standards. While the number of suspensions of auditing companies, terminations of auditors, and audit backlogs were significant.

Nowadays, setting professional qualifications and exams is a hot topic among auditing companies. Yet, we have seen all sorts of violations that are not being reported in audit reports.
There are several key factors for these tremendous failures;

• Less chance to train new auditors. The high demand for professional-level audit qualifications created a vacuum of qualified lead auditors. This made only few auditors to train and conduct audits. Therefore, same old teams were rotating among auditing companies. That created high demand for lead auditors, and the professional exam bodies began to become cash cow rather than protecting against inhumane treatment.
• The other factor is audit fees are often invoiced to suppliers and collected by auditing companies for many years. Except for industry programs, this is now very common among all other industry standard audits, and this is a huge disadvantage for social audits. The above method eventually creates a massive conflict of interest to retain a supplier; in other words, business retention rather than doing an independent audit onsite.
• A few years back, many business line leaders started to talk about profit instead of Governance and Quality Standards. Due to the numbers game, highly profit-oriented business models kicked out many ethical auditors and managers from organisations.

We have understood these mounting problems since 2018. Therefore, we've researched and developed slightly modified versions to protect responsible suppliers, independent auditors, ethical brands and the community.
We offer a complete package of factory audit services that include social auditing, environmental assessment, technical capability review and supply chain security audits. Ethical Freelancers Services is a professional grade support service organisation that provides qualified auditors for any type of auditing standard.

How do we do this? We filter and thoroughly investigate auditors' background information and close conduct monitoring of each activity with a non-biased independent quality assurance team.

To deliver extensive and comprehensive assurance to brands and retailers, we have developed our own auditing program that is simple, online and transparent information. We might not be able to produce a high volume of weekly audit reports because we believe each audit report is completed after 48 hours, and auditors must have enough paid off days to complete their task.

As we speak, we introduced a system to guard audit activity and not compromise audit quality due to corruption.

If you are a customer who believes in integrity, then we are the support service that it delivers without compromising it.